Doxo Adds Auto-Bill Pay, Adds AT&amp;T As Partner

Online file cabinet doxo has added a new twist to its online bill payment service to make paying bills online easier.

Doxo is a free service for people to store all their bills, statements and documents. The service is designed to be an all-in-one place to store important paper--in digital format. It also has a bill payment service, doxoPAY. Now doxo has added an auto-billpay feature that includes a limit on how much will be paid. For example, consumers can choose to automatically pay their electric bill as long as it doesn't exceed $100. Doxo's payment system includes an inbox so that people can see all their bills that are due and click on them to see the full details.

Doxo has landed AT&T as a new partner in its bill pay system. That means that AT&T, with its 100 million subscribers, will agree to send bills electronically to consumers via doxo and that people can pay them directly from doxo. The idea is to make paper bills obsolete. "AT some point we hope you feel comfortable ignoring your (regular) mail," says Steve Shivers, doxo cofounder and CEO. "At that point business will quit sending it."

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Other bill payment partners include Sprint, Puget Sound Energy, Oregon Federal Credit Union, Kansas City Power & Light. Doxo takes a small fee from the bill senders, though it is much less than the cost of sending snail mail, says Shivers.

Doxo also can sync people's files on the hard drive of their computer and with services such as Dropbox, Box.net or Evernote, a feature many people wanted for insuring a back up copy, Shivers says.

Doxo, which is backed by Jeff Bezos' Bezos Expeditions, Mohr Davidow Ventures and Sigma Partners, also has a mobile app so that people can take a picture of a document or receipt while on the go and store it to their doxo accounts.